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You’ll learn about the various coaching models, client interaction techniques, financial incentives, business plans, and more in this course.
Business coaches, like sports coaches, are goal-oriented individuals who assist customers in identifying, surmounting, and removing obstacles to their own personal development. You’ll assist your clients in realising their full business potential by working with them to build plans for attaining objectives.
Business mentors:
- evaluate client aptitude;
- utilise strengths;
- assist in identifying and addressing deficiencies;
- Create strategic, directional programmes.
Lesson Structure
There are 8 lessons in this course:
- Nature and Scope of Business Coaching
- Nature of Business Coaching, Life Coaching and Sports Coaching
- Terminology
- Why People Use Business Coaches
- Case Studies
- Business Failure or Success
- The Initial Consultation
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Goal Centred Approach
- Reality based approach
- Motivational Approach
- First Contact
- SWOT Analysis
- Replace Negative with Positive Habits
- Monitor and Evaluate Progress
- Closing
- Case Studies
- Considering Alternative Actions
- Developing a Business Plan
- Feasibility Studies
- Formal Documentation
- Operational Management
- Strategic Planning
- Operational Planning
- Components of a Business Plan
- Implementing Ideas
- Changing Behaviour
- Looking after long term Viability
- Partial Sell Offs
- Restructuring
- R & D
- Changing Products and Services
- Buying a New Business
- Staff
- Selling or Winding Down
- Case Studies
- Improving Productivity
- Quality Circles
- Cause and Effect Diagrams
- Pareto Analysis
- Brainstorming
- Motivation
- Internal and Intrinsic Incentives
- Incentives External to Working Environment
- Social Reinforcers as Incentives
- Tangible Rewards
- Case Studies
- Marketing
- Introduction to Marketing
- Marketing Strategy
- Starting out in Business
- Making Contact
- Controlling Growth
- Improving Results
- Building Better Staff
- Staff recruitment
- Team building and Team Management
- Staff development and Training
- Improving Resource Management
- BRM (Business Resource Management)
- Stress Management
- Case Studies
- Putting it all into Practice
- PBL Based Project
- Significance of knowledge of interviewing and assessment
- Incentives and motivational strategies
- Productivity and marketing strategies
- Theoretical information to derive sensible solutions
- Initial business coaching assessment for a specified business
- Actions for improving and sustaining the level of performance
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Aims
- Identify chances to work as a business coach, describe the services they may provide clients, and
- establish a knowledge of their responsibilities.
- Recognize how to compile pertinent information and conduct a first meeting with a client.
- Describe the possible courses of action to improve the efficiency of a new or current firm.
- Learn how to teach businesses effectively to increase productivity.
- Become knowledgeable about the ways that company coaching can enhance marketing.
- Talk about how to offer corporate coaching to boost employee hiring, training, performance, and motivation.
- Recognize the benefits of using business coaching to enhance resource management.
- Provide a client a thorough business coaching service.
How You Plan to Act
- Identifying chances to work as a business coach and developing a knowledge of the job of a business coach are the goals of this course. You’ll discover how to compile pertinent information and hold an initial client session.
- You will study about business model optimization for new or current enterprises throughout the course, with an emphasis on raising a company’s productivity. Recognize the benefits of using business coaching to enhance resource management.
- You will gain awareness of how business coaching can enhance employee recruitment, skills, performance, and motivation as well as marketing.
- You will get the chance to build and practise providing a customer with a thorough business coaching service.
Why Do Individuals Need Business Coaches?
A business owner, manager, or director can benefit from business coaching by:
- better business judgements
- more quickly and with greater aims
- strengthen relationships
No matter how skilled a manager is, they will always have a personal connection to their company and make decisions based on that connection. Sometimes all it takes to change something is to just view things from a different angle. A professionally qualified business coach can assist the manager in viewing their problems from several angles, free from the baggage of the past.
Every client will receive a particular type of business coaching, tailored to their needs, because most business coaching entails working with the management on THEIR difficulties. Hence, there are two ways a business coach can assist a businessperson:
1. To help them as an individual perform better
- how they respond to staff
- their work life balance
- their organisational structure
- delegation
- staff training
- motivating staff
- better management skills
- time management
2. To help their business perform better
- looking at ideas for the structuring of the business
- employment of staff
- time management with staff
It might occasionally feel lonely to be a manager or business owner. Therefore a business coach can act as a confidante and sounding board to help a business owner express their concerns and then assist them in finding efficient and rapid solutions to their difficulties.
Business coaching is typically seen as an effective intervention strategy to enhance a corporation or a businessperson’s working style because it can be:
- time efficient
- effective
- is individually tailored to the person’s requirements
- is outcome focused
In conclusion, business coaching
- is a one-on-one service for a specific business person, intended to increase the success of that person or their firm.
- It focuses on the key elements and aids the person in focusing on and achieving their goals.
- helps people expand their businesses, provides support, and ideally improves their quality of life overall.
- delivers abilities and information. Additionally, the business coach will provide the businessperson with a variety of tools and skills to use in both their professional and personal lives for both immediate and long-term success.
Don’t get mixed up in this. A business coach is not the same as a business consultant; they are not there to assist the business owner in creating a new hiring schedule or procedure; rather, they are there to examine potential problems that may be affecting how smoothly the business is operating and to find solutions to help the owner change that.
It is possible to mix up business coaching with other interventions including counselling, life coaching, consulting, and training. Yet, it is not the same.
FOLLOWING THE COURSE
After finishing this course, you will have a lot better understanding of the business coaching process and a much clearer awareness of potential prospects than you did at the beginning.
Every student has a unique background that has been developed over time through study and experience before enrolling in the course. By the time they finish their education, the finest business coaches will have identified their own strengths and shortcomings. With this information, they will be better able to pinpoint the kinds of business managers who can benefit from their assistance.
- Some people will launch their own firm as a business coach.
- Others might expand their existing businesses to include business counselling (eg. financial planning, life coaching or business consulting).
- You can look for work or partner with others in a company that offers a variety of business-to-business services.
